CFP: Geomedia 2017: “Spaces of the In-Between"

CFP: Geomedia 2017: “Spaces of the In-Between”

Karlstad, Sweden

9-12 May 2017
http://geomedia.se/conference/2017/call-for-papers/

Welcome to the 2'nd international Geomedia conference! The term /geomedia/ captures the fundamental role of media in organizing and giving meaning to processes and activities in space. It also refers to the geographical qualities of media, for example flows of digital signals between particular places and the infrastructure carrying those flows. The rapid expansion of mobile media, location-based services, geographical information systems and increasingly complex patterns of surveillance/interveillance has amplified the need for critical studies and theorizations of geomedia. The 2'nd Geomedia Conference welcomes contributions (full sessions/panels as well as individual papers) that analyze and problematize the relations between the any and all communication media and various forms of spatial creativity, performance and production across material, cultural, social and political dimensions. Geomedia 2017 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena for research carried out at the crossroads of geography, media and film studies. It also builds bridges to such fields as urban studies, rural studies, regional planning, cultural studies and tourism studies.

Keynote speakers:

Christian Licoppe – Télécom ParisTech, France
Scott McQuire – University of Melbourne, Australia
Gillian Rose – The Open University, UK *Plenary panel – “Geographies of News”:*
Julie Firmstone – University of Leeds, UK
Philip Napoli – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Lars Nyre – University of Bergen, Norway
Nikki Usher – George Washington University, USA
Henrik Örnebring (chair) – Karlstad University, Sweden


Film screenings and directors:

/Reflections/ – Sara Broos, Sweden (2016) 

/I Am Dublin/ – David Aronowitsch, Ahmed Abdullahi, Anna Persson and Sharmarke Binyusuf,
Sweden (2015)


Art installation:

/Fragmentarium/ – Jacek Smolicki, Sweden


Abstract submissions:

Geomedia 2017 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as thematic panels in English through the conference website: www.geomedia.se

Individual paper proposals:

The author submits an abstract of 200-250 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers according to thematic area.

Thematic panel proposals:

The chair of the panel submits a proposal consisting of 4-5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200-250 words.


Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:

• Art and event spaces
• Cinematic geographies
• Cosmopolitanism
• Everyday communication geographies
• Epistemologies and methodologies of geomedia
• Geographies of media and culture industries
• Geographies of news
• Historical perspectives of geomedia
• Lifestyle and tourism mobilities
• Locative and spatial media
• Material geographies of media
• Media ecologies
• Mediatization and space
• Migration and media
• Mobility and governance
• Policy mobilities and power
• Power geometries and mobility capital
• Surveillance and spatial control
• Urban and rural media spaces

Conference timeline

September 26th 2016: Submission system opens
December 9th  2016: Deadline for thematic panels and individual paper proposals
January 23rd 2017: Notes of acceptance and registration opens
February 28th 2017: Early Bird pricing ends
March 20th 2017: Last day of registration

Conference website:

Information about registration, conference program, venue, social events and practical arrangements will be posted continuously at the conference www.geomedia.se

Contact:

You can reach us at  info@geomedia.se


Organizers and venue:

Geomedia 2017 is hosted by the Geomedia Research Group at the Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden.

Conference Director: Linda Ryan Bengtsson 

Conference Coordinator: Lena Grip

Director of the Geomedia Research Group: André Jansson 

Conference theme
The special theme of Geomedia 2017 is “Spaces of the In-Between”. The theme will be addressed through invited keynote talks, a plenary panel, film screenings and artistic installations. Participants are also encouraged to submit proposals for paper sessions addressing the conference theme. “Spaces of the In-Between” sheds light on how media are, and have been, part of producing spaces and places that fall in-between or resist dominant categorizations. Such spaces include, firstly, more or less fluid media spaces that bridge or problematize the divisions of, for example, work and leisure, home and away, production and consumption. Secondly, spaces of the in-between are produced through various forms of mobility, related to for instance commuting or migration, that are shaped by and giving shape to particular media forms. Finally, the conference theme highlights mediations of concrete places that can be understood as “neither/nor”. Such places can be found on the margins of society or fall in-between dichotomized geo-social constructs like urban vs. rural, front-stage vs. back-stage, etc.


Ultimately, the conference theme opens up for critical discussions of what forms of power and domination are expressed through the mediated/mediatized production of various in-between spaces.

CFP: Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop

Call for Papers and Participation

Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop

The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning
Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon

ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 15, 2016

Organizers
Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Katriina.Bystrom@hioa.no
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, fichman@indiana.edu
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Luanne.Freund@ubc.ca 

Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, hrosenba@indiana.edu

Join us at ASIS&T in Copenhagen for a full-day pre-conference workshop to explore the ways in which our uses of information and technologies improve our work and social lives. Two vital and dynamic SIGs are joining forces for a workshop that will provide two interesting and complementary perspectives in the conference theme.

In the morning session, SIG-SI will bring a perspective that focuses on the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in work and play across all areas of ASIS&T. In the afternoon session, SIG-USE will focus on information related activities from different research perspectives and explores the significance of information seeking and use on our lives.

Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical papers and posters, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. The combined workshop will allow networking between members of both SIGs during the day.

MORNING: THE SOCIAL INFORMATICS OF WORK AND PLAY (SIG SI)
Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics

This year’s conference theme is “creating knowledge, enhancing lives through information & technology.” This is a particularly apposite theme for SIG-SI, because the social impacts of ICT and the complex relations among people, technologies, and the contexts of ICT design, implementation, and use have long been core concerns of social informatics. The SIG-SI morning session, our 12th annual gathering at ASIS&T annual meetings, will bring a critical perspective that focuses on the social aspects of ICT that cuts across all areas of ASIS&T This year, we are particularly interested in papers that investigate the social informatics of work and play.

We define “social” broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. We also define “technology” broadly to include traditional technologies  (e.g., paper, books, etc.), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include papers and posters that explore the ways in which people’s uses of ICT affect their practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives.

We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium’s theme, but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Some of the questions we ask include:

• What are the impacts of ICT on people’s practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives?
• What are some of the ways our work and play practices shape the design and development of ICT?
• What are the ways ICT positively and negatively impact organizations, work, play, and social life?
• What kinds of theoretical and methodological frameworks are best suited for studying the mutual shaping of ICT and practices and behaviors while at work and play?

The schedule for the morning session of the symposium will involve the presentations of papers, a panel of distinguished scholars, and the best social informatics paper awards for 2015. We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience.

SIG-SI symposium chairs

Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

AFTERNOON: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN WORKPLACES (SIG-USE)

This year’s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces.

Earlier generations were accustomed to stable and localized work; now work activities and contexts have and are radically changing. During their work life, people may experience several career changes, are expected to learn new skills and adapt to new ideas as well as manage the increasingly fluid boundaries between work and leisure. Moreover, much of information and data are internetworked and accessible simultaneously by multiple mobile devices supporting networked communities anyplace, anywhere, anytime. This challenges both the creation and consumption of information used for work – or at work; it also affects how, when and where people work, as well as their productivity, collegiality and innovativeness.

Despite, or perhaps due to, the advances in technology, today’s workplaces remain challenged by how to create, discover, share, value and enhance information and knowledge at and for work; and, how to design and manage the systems that support these functions, which are so critical to organizationally effective and individually rewarding work. The issues are many, from the consequences of new devices that are stretching the ways that an organization works, to the efficacy dynamics (stress, motivation, collaboration, productivity, age, etc.) and to the new skills and expertise required to work in such changing and changeable environments. Information is indispensable in many, if not all, workplace activities; as a resource for getting work done as well as for learning, managing change, developing and maintaining processes and creating professional networks.

Specific issues to be addressed depend on the interest of the participants and the issues they bring into the workshop. Welcome topics include:

• Critical cultural information behavior – how do we infuse our workplaces and practices with diversity and social justice sensibilities?
• Collaborative IB; virtual team
• Digital workplaces, peopleless offices & officeless people - what happens when the physical workplace dissolves?
• Everyday Life Information (in the workplace)
• Frameworks for understanding IB/IP in work settings
• IB/IP and  workplace or information systems design
• Organizational behaviour research - what can we learn from this field of research that is relevant to IB/IP?
• Organizational information genres
• Personal Information Management (in the workplace)
• The blurring of lines between personal and professional in digital information use in the workplace
• The impact of mobile devices on IB/IP in the workplace
• Workplace culture, diversity and inclusion - how these shape and are shaped by information behaviour (IB)/information practices (IP)?
• and any other work-related informational topics

We aim to an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants to submit; even if participation without a paper/poster is an eligible option. The workshop features a keynote by Professor Hazel Hall (preliminarily confirmed), presentation of selected papers, a joint poster session between the SIGs, and roundtable discussions based on short papers and posters by participants.

Documentation: short papers and posters are shared digitally among the participants. Roundtable discussions are documented by a designated person in each group and collated by symposium chairs to a short summary that is made available for the participants afterwards.

SIG-USE symposium chairs

David Allen, Leeds University, UK
Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

SI - opening keynote: 8.30-9.00
Paper presentations: 9.00-10.30
Break 10.30-10.45
Panel: 10.45-11.45
SIG SI paper awards: 11.45-12.15
SI- closing discussion and remarks: 12.15-12.45

USE- opening and opening keynote: 13.45-14.45
Short Paper Session: 14.45-15.45
Break 15.45-16.00
Roundtable discussion based on papers & posters: 16.00-17.30
SIG USE Awards 17.30-17.45
USE - closing remarks: 17.45-18.00

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR BOTH SIGS

Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 19, 2016.

SIG-SI: Please send your submission as a PDF file to: hrosenba@indiana.edu
SIG-USE: Please, send your submission as a PDF-file to: katriina.bystrom@hioa.no

Acceptance announcements made by August 31, 2016 in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 2, 2016).

FEES

Members – SIG-SI session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016
Members – SIG-USE session: $100 - $120 after September September 2, 2016
Members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $180 - $200 after Sept. 2, 2016

Non-members  - SIG-SI Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016
Non-members  - SIG-USE Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016
Non-members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $230 - $250 after Sept. 2, 2016

CFP: Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology

Call for Papers and Participation

Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop

The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning
Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon

ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 15, 2016

Organizers
Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Katriina.Bystrom@hioa.no
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, fichman@indiana.edu
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Luanne.Freund@ubc.ca
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, hrosenba@indiana.edu

Join us at ASIS&T in Copenhagen for a full-day pre-conference workshop to explore the ways in which our uses of information and technologies improve our work and social lives. Two vital and dynamic SIGs are joining forces for a workshop that will provide two interesting and complementary perspectives in the conference theme.

In the morning session, SIG-SI will bring a perspective that focuses on the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in work and play across all areas of ASIS&T. In the afternoon session, SIG-USE will focus on information related activities from different research perspectives and explores the significance of information seeking and use on our lives.

Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical papers and posters, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. The combined workshop will allow networking between members of both SIGs during the day.

MORNING: THE SOCIAL INFORMATICS OF WORK AND PLAY (SIG SI)
Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics

This year’s conference theme is “creating knowledge, enhancing lives through information & technology.” This is a particularly apposite theme for SIG-SI, because the social impacts of ICT and the complex relations among people, technologies, and the contexts of ICT design, implementation, and use have long been core concerns of social informatics. The SIG-SI morning session, our 12th annual gathering at ASIS&T annual meetings, will bring a critical perspective that focuses on the social aspects of ICT that cuts across all areas of ASIS&T This year, we are particularly interested in papers that investigate the social informatics of work and play.

We define “social” broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. We also define “technology” broadly to include traditional technologies  (e.g., paper, books, etc.), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include papers and posters that explore the ways in which people’s uses of ICT affect their practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives.

We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium’s theme, but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Some of the questions we ask include:

• What are the impacts of ICT on people’s practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives?
• What are some of the ways our work and play practices shape the design and development of ICT?
• What are the ways ICT positively and negatively impact organizations, work, play, and social life?
• What kinds of theoretical and methodological frameworks are best suited for studying the mutual shaping of ICT and practices and behaviors while at work and play?

The schedule for the morning session of the symposium will involve the presentations of papers, a panel of distinguished scholars, and the best social informatics paper awards for 2015. We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience.

SIG-SI symposium chairs

Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

AFTERNOON: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN WORKPLACES (SIG-USE)

This year’s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces.

Earlier generations were accustomed to stable and localized work; now work activities and contexts have and are radically changing. During their work life, people may experience several career changes, are expected to learn new skills and adapt to new ideas as well as manage the increasingly fluid boundaries between work and leisure. Moreover, much of information and data are internetworked and accessible simultaneously by multiple mobile devices supporting networked communities anyplace, anywhere, anytime. This challenges both the creation and consumption of information used for work – or at work; it also affects how, when and where people work, as well as their productivity, collegiality and innovativeness.

Despite, or perhaps due to, the advances in technology, today’s workplaces remain challenged by how to create, discover, share, value and enhance information and knowledge at and for work; and, how to design and manage the systems that support these functions, which are so critical to organizationally effective and individually rewarding work. The issues are many, from the consequences of new devices that are stretching the ways that an organization works, to the efficacy dynamics (stress, motivation, collaboration, productivity, age, etc.) and to the new skills and expertise required to work in such changing and changeable environments. Information is indispensable in many, if not all, workplace activities; as a resource for getting work done as well as for learning, managing change, developing and maintaining processes and creating professional networks.

Specific issues to be addressed depend on the interest of the participants and the issues they bring into the workshop. Welcome topics include:

• Critical cultural information behavior – how do we infuse our workplaces and practices with diversity and social justice sensibilities?
• Collaborative IB; virtual team
• Digital workplaces, peopleless offices & officeless people - what happens when the physical workplace dissolves?
• Everyday Life Information (in the workplace)
• Frameworks for understanding IB/IP in work settings
• IB/IP and workplace or information systems design
• Organizational behaviour research - what can we learn from this field of research that is relevant to IB/IP?
• Organizational information genres
• Personal Information Management (in the workplace)
• The blurring of lines between personal and professional in digital information use in the workplace
• The impact of mobile devices on IB/IP in the workplace
• Workplace culture, diversity and inclusion - how these shape and are shaped by information behaviour (IB)/information practices (IP)?
• and any other work-related informational topics

We aim to an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants to submit; even if participation without a paper/poster is an eligible option. The workshop features a keynote by Professor Hazel Hall (preliminarily confirmed), presentation of selected papers, a joint poster session between the SIGs, and roundtable discussions based on short papers and posters by participants.

Documentation: short papers and posters are shared digitally among the participants. Roundtable discussions are documented by a designated person in each group and collated by symposium chairs to a short summary that is made available for the participants afterwards.

SIG-USE symposium chairs

David Allen, Leeds University, UK
Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

SI - opening keynote: 8.30-9.00
Paper presentations: 9.00-10.30
Break 10.30-10.45
Panel: 10.45-11.45
SIG SI paper awards: 11.45-12.15
SI- closing discussion and remarks: 12.15-12.45

USE- opening and opening keynote: 13.45-14.45
Short Paper Session: 14.45-15.45
Break 15.45-16.00
Roundtable discussion based on papers & posters: 16.00-17.30
SIG USE Awards 17.30-17.45
USE - closing remarks: 17.45-18.00

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR BOTH SIGS

Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 19, 2016.

SIG-SI: Please send your submission as a PDF file to: hrosenba@indiana.edu

SIG-USE: Please, send your submission as a PDF-file to: katriina.bystrom@hioa.no<mailto:katriina.bystrom@hioa.no>

Acceptance announcements made by August 31, 2016 in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 2, 2016).

FEES

Members – SIG-SI session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016
Members – SIG-USE session: $100 - $120 after September September 2, 2016
Members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $180 - $200 after Sept. 2, 2016

Non-members  - SIG-SI Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016
Non-members  - SIG-USE Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016
Non-members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $230 - $250 after Sept. 2, 2016

CFP: Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS)

Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS)
Issue topic: ICT and ICTS in Development

http://www.devcomsjournalmw.org/page/call-papers


Vol. 5. Number 1 of the Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS) will be dedicated to research articles, case studies, and book reviews that explore the potential as well as proven role and impact of Information and Communication Technology/Technologies (ICT) and Information and Communication Technologies and Services (ICTS) in the advancement of health, education, gender, water and sanitation, economic, social and cultural development. Interested authors should email their papers, following this journal's submission format (see http://www.devcomsjournalmw.org/page/author-guidelines), to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org.

Closing date for submissions: 30 November, 2016.

Articles exploring other relevant areas of development are also welcome and should be sent to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org

Call: 7th Budapest Visual Learning Conference – Virtual, Visual, Veridical

Call for Abstracts

7th Budapest Visual Learning Conference
November 11–12, 2016

Visual Learning: VIRTUAL – VISUAL – VERIDICAL

How do the visual and the virtual relate to each other, what are the relationships between image and truth? How can the visual be veridical, and how is the really real reflected by virtual reality? How are images handed down, and what do traditions amount to in the network age?

Invited speakers:
James E. Katz (Boston University)
Petra Aczél (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest)
Philipp Stoellger (Universität Heidelberg)
Kristóf Nyíri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Conference to take place in Budapest, November 11–12, 2016. Conference organized by the Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (http://vll.mpt.bme.hu).

Contributions are invited from educational, communication and media theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:

• educational theory and visual learning
• resemblance, representation, reality
• image and language
• images and media theory
• visual rhetoric
• pictorial meaning
• pictorial communication — visual imagery
• visual intelligence
• the visual mind
• the image problem in the history of philosophy
• visual argument
• scientific visualization
• visualization and higher education
• images in the network age

A slot of altogether 30 minutes is planned for each presentation.

The selected papers will be published as an ISBN publication in the series Visual Learning (Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften) as well as in the on-line journal Opus et Educatio.

Submission of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max. 100 words) by August 16, 2016. Please send your submissions to vll2016@eik.bme.hu. Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by August 31, 2016.

The conference venue (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudósok körútja 2, Bld. Q, Wing A) is located near downtown Budapest.

CFP: Mobile Methods: Explorations, Innovations, and Reflections | Mobile Media & Communication

Call for papers for a special section of Mobile Media & Communication titled “Mobile Methods: Explorations, Innovations, and Reflections”, to be published in volume 6:1, 2018 (http://mmc.sagepub.com)

Guest

Editors

Jeffrey Boase, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada, j.boase@utoronto.ca

Lee Humphreys, PhD, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA, lmh13@cornell.edu

Overview

Mobile devices have become a primary medium of everyday life. They are a means by which close relationships are maintained, new relationships are formed, information is acquired, entertainment is delivered, and work gets done. As such, mobile devices have become an important new site for social science research, and they have simultaneously inserted themselves into traditional research sites in which quantitative and qualitative data are collected. The implications for how data are collected and analyzed are vast and affect researchers working in a variety of traditions. For those working in behavioural science traditions, the large caches of detailed and highly personal behavioural log data contained on mobile devices raise new opportunities along with weighty ethical and methodological challenges. For those working in interpretive traditions, the role of mobile devices in many aspects of social life requires a rethinking of research contexts and modes. Mobile devices can also act as new tools  for data collection, allowing participants to share and create social meaning, and researchers to conduct on-screen surveying, experience sampling, field experiments, technology probes, and so forth.

We seek out scholars who are methodologically reflective about the use of mobile methods in their research, whether it be to better understand the mobile and mediated environment or to use the mobile devices as a lens into broader social, political or health issues, questions, and interventions. We seek diverse mobile methods scholarship that is innovative, rigorous, creative, and/or exploratory.

Submissions that develop or advance new mobile methodological approaches are encouraged, as are articles that explore epistemological issues related to mobile methods.

The articles in the special section may include, but are not limited to, the following themes in the study of mobile methods:

• Ethical issues in mobile data collection
• Multi-method approaches to mobile data collection
• Integrating mobile devices into interviews
• Mobile data collection in field experiments
• Mobile ethnography
• Mobile methods beyond the smartphone and tablet
• Ethically tracking behaviour using mobile devices
• Implications of mobile methods for social science
• Experiential sampling using mobile devices
• Opportunities and constraints with on-screen mobile surveys
• Analyzing large and complex behavioural data collected from mobile devices
• Methods that place mobile use into broader social and situational contexts
• Location tracking in mobile research
• Mobile photo elicitation
• Ethical and methodological issues surrounding the development of data collection apps
• Mobile systems/infrastructure analysis
• Critical methods to mobile data collection

Journal Review Process and Submission Guidelines

For guidelines on preparation of manuscripts and criteria for acceptance, please follow Mobile Media & Communication Submission Guidelines (https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/mobile-media-communication#submission-guidelines).

Please submit an abstract of 700-800 words that clearly states the main argument and evidence of the paper and the primary literatures it is building upon. The abstract should also clearly articulate the submission’s contribution to mobile methods. For empirical studies still in progress, please outline the current state and the timeline. Also include the names, titles, and contact information for 2-3 suggested reviewers. Abstracts are due October 1st, 2016, to j.boase@utoronto.ca (with “Mobile Methods MMC Special Issue” in the subject line), and should be accompanied by an abbreviated biography (approx. 200-300 words).

Positively reviewed abstracts (notification by November, 2017) will be invited to submit full articles by April 1st, 2017, through http://mmc.sagepub.com.

These full articles will be peer-reviewed by two to three reviewers and considered for acceptance. The special section will be published in Volume 6, issue 1, January 2018. Please note that manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for Mobile Media & Communication. Final papers should be no longer than 7,000 words, including abstract, references, figures and tables. In case of further questions, please contact the guest editors.

Tentative Timeline

We are targeting the Special Section publication for January 1st, 2018. The tentative timeline is:

Announce CfP: August 1st, 2016

Extended abstract submission due (700-800 words): October 1st, 2016

Notification of abstract acceptance: November, 2016

Submission of full article: April 1st, 2017

Final version due for production: September 15th, 2017

Submission of full article: 30 April 2016

Final version due for production: December 2016

CFP: ICTs and ICTS in Development

Call for papers

ICTs and ICTS in Development

Vol.5.1 of the Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS) will be dedicated to research articles, case studies, and book reviews that explore the potential as well as proven role and impact of Information and Communication Technology/Technologies (ICT) and Information and Communication Technologies and Services (ICTS) in the advancement of health, education, gender, water and sanitation, economic, social and cultural development. Interested authors should email their papers, following this journal's submission format (see details at http://www.devcomsjournalmw.org/page/author-guidelines), to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org.

Closing date for submissions: 30 November, 2016.

Articles exploring other relevant areas of development are also welcome and should be sent to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org.